This is Part I of what became a two-part series on the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, with special guest host Nick Williams. It was not originally planned as such, so Part I ends somewhat abruptly.
**Tanner's mic quality is not great in this episode, but it has been cleaned up as much as possible**
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Sources:
Chaffin, Tom. The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy. Hill and Wang, 2010.
Kelln, Albert L. “Confederate Submarines.” The Virginia Magazine of HIstory and Biography, vol. 61, no. 3, July 1953, pp. 293 - 303.
Schneller, Robert J. “A Littoral Frustration: The Union Navy and the Siege of Charleston, 1863 - 1865.” Naval War College Review, vol. 49, no. 1, Winter 1996, pp. 38 - 60.